On the way to DC, the train stopped at College Park (another station of #WMATA's Green Line which is closed), and Riverdale. After approximately 20 minutes, the train arrived at Washington, DC's #UnionStation 8 minutes before schedule - there is quite a lot of buffer in the schedule. The station is like many major US train stations: While there are often beautiful, impressive, and historic station halls, the platforms are ... well, let's say less impressive.

I don't know how common this actually is, but I was surprised to see the approaching train consisting of #MARC's newest double decker cars, the Bombardier MultiLevel Coaches. On my few previous trips on this line before, I only traveled on the older single level cars. The interior looks nice and clean, the seats are comfortable. The only odd thing was that the door between the car and the pushing locomotive was open, but I guess that is not the usual situation.

The train arrived 2 minutes late and, as usual for many trains in the US outside the North East Corridor, you can hear it long before you can see it approach the station.

The trip starts at the #MARC #Greenbelt station which is located right next to the #WMATA Metro station and has two platforms (one for trains to Baltimore, one for train to DC) and two tracks for trains passing through. The station has a bench, a shelter, and a screen with live information.